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Military? >> reporter: yeah, just on those city commanders, three generals killed within a space of a day. it has been confirmed by western officials. they believe it to be true. it does raise some lingering questions to what they were doing close to the front line and in harms way, the working theory is they were there to try and sort out a lot of the strategic problems that have bogged the russian invasion down. or just to motivate many of the soldiers to actually progress onwards because ther...

Some high profile loss, in particular, the military generals. and we can get more on this, from our correspondent in lviv. good afternoon your time to you, tell us more. >> yes, three russian generals killed in just over a week of fighting, and thats been confirmed by western officials, and it begs the question why, and what they were doing at the front line, i mean it is pretty unusual at times of intense fighting to see senior military commanders like that go direct to the front line, they ten...

Escalate to de-escalate. what does it say to you that he is asking for the belarusian military to possibly be involved? and given just a few days ago we had -- we heard from of course president biden in his discussion with the president of china, and they have remained on the side lines. can we expect something similar in terms of what the belarusian military might do, it might be involved in or not? >> i think the belarusian military is resisting being ordered in. im hearing the soldiers and lo...

The evening there. benjamin. >> hi, sandra. russia made the first real moves on the capital kyiv, pushing tank convoys towards the outskirts. as we have seen before over the last couple of weeks, they were repelled by the ukrainians, using the javelin missiles and holding back the two convoys and does suggests p utins forces face a long and bloody campaign when they try to take the capital. what we are likely to see, more indiscriminate bombing before they move in. russia has lost some 12,000 so...

President putin and putting pressure on commanders. it results in this behavior have subordinate commanders. we should not forget urban warfare is very brutal. it brutalized participants. which makes these kinds of war crimes much more likely. >> yeah. it hasnt even become really urban combat. these are russian strikes. sometimes with long range missiles. into populated areas. do you share the analysis that some experts have brought fourth that russia is on the back foot. these types of actions ...

We sometimes describe russia as a gas station with nukes. you know, it is this huge energy power and it has a military machine and thats about it. and the military machine is being shown now not to be working, and it is especially damaging to putin because that was one of his projects. he knew that the russian army had just decayed, the discipline was lax, that the conditions for young soldiers were intolerable. it was hazing. these were not well-managed, well- pro visioned armies. it has been a...

Power, the core strength is in bureaucratic organization and logistics. theyre good at moving people from place to place and equipment and doing this. i dont see why nato generals and commanders are not thinking more as to how to alleviate human suffering with the resources. natos budgets are almost irrelevant considering the well over $700 billion the u.s. puts into its military every year. why are we not using this? why dont we have flights landing in warsaw and krakow every day setting up cam...

Not today then tomorrow then these are intolerable levels and it is worth some risk to airplanes and pilots to save as many civilians as we can. putin does not want that. >> some risk to airplanes and pilots. do you think thats feasible? >> i have a great deal of respect for ambassador but i got to tell you, i completely disagree with him. as much as everybody wants to air to be covered, it already is. the ukrainian air force is doing a hell of a job against the russian air force and number two,...

In response to russias unprovoked and unjustified attack on ukraine as well as to reaffirm our ironclad commitmen to our nato allies. >> heres the translation. he will tell biden what the dea is and by then well just nod. thats my translation. sending biden to brussels and putting his ineptitude on full display will be an utter catastrophe and it will be made worse by something he said just hours ago. tomorrow nato is set to tell it military commanders to draw a plan for new ways to deter russia...

Right, i think that time is, in fact, working against russia. they had lost the advantage of the shock and awe expectation people had for them. now the grinding nature of the war exposed them as more of a paper tire than they had been. it doesnt mean they cant ultimately win. they do still have, of course, superior fire power. they have the will of vladimir putin to do things that ordinary commanders wouldnt do, in terms of civilian destruction. general mccaffrey mentioned 25,000 russian soldier...